{"id":1601,"date":"2026-10-07T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T10:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/?p=1601"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:22:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T15:22:01","slug":"housing-program-for-new-yorks-homeless-sees-wait-times-rise-to-236-days-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/2026\/10\/07\/housing-program-for-new-yorks-homeless-sees-wait-times-rise-to-236-days-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing Program for New York\u2019s Homeless Sees Wait Times Rise to 236 Days, Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By Virginia Noone<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City Council weighs five bills aimed at cutting bureaucratic delays that can keep voucher holders in shelters for months after they qualify for housing. LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/byvirginianoone.substack.com\/p\/housing-program-for-new-yorks-homeless\">Housing Program for New York\u2019s Homeless<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Virginia Noone<\/p>\n<p>City Council weighs five bills aimed at cutting bureaucratic delays that can keep voucher holders in shelters for months after they qualify for housing. LINK: <a href=\"https:\/\/byvirginianoone.substack.com\/p\/housing-program-for-new-yorks-homeless\">Housing Program for New York\u2019s Homeless<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":365,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-housing","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/365"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/gale-brewer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}